iVeviottS tö the operation of weaving, .thé yarn is;boiled? and afterwards
dressed and combed with rice-water, . "When dry,-it is wound round à sort
of reel, termed ’ingm , and prepared for weaving. These are the last operations
it undergoes till it is put into the hands of the weaver, and requires,
in ordinary circumstances, three days for its completion. Four days f e e
required even hÿ an expert weaver, and five or six by an ordinary one, to
manufacture à sarong?, or piece o f cloth, a fathom and a half long and five
spans broad (equal to three square handkerchiefs of the ordinary size worn
on the head|.> The cloths thus prepared, white un'eolonrèd, Are distin-
$ guished by:the term léman.
The spinning-wheel is termed y and the spindte Mti. The loom,
with all its. apparatus,.'is called âbah âbàh tenén, the shuttle trêporg, the
woof mm% and the warp pakan.* Both machines resemble those described
onthe continent of India, but ane neater-and.mrreh better m.ade : the loom
especially is more perfect : the weaver, instead of sMhg in holes dug in
th e ground, invariably sits on a raised flooring, generally in .front of the
honsei bter tegs being stretched out horizontally ander Ab e loom. The
price of the spinning-wheel varies from less than half a rupee to a rupee,
and that o f the loom firom a rupee to a Spanish, dollar. . The operations of
spinning and weaving are confined exclusively to th e women, who from the
highest "to the lowest rank, prepare the cloths o f their husbands and their
families.
Cottoa e ^ : . (Moiired cottent (Ja rif) are dMiiiinshed into lurd 'o t \lvmi g in g a n g ,
those in which the yacn is dyed previously to weaving; and bâtïfaithose
which arq dyed subsequently. The proces®; of weaving, the former, is similar
’to .that of the gingham, which it resembles, and need not therefore fee
detailed a but the. latter, being peculiar to Java» rpaÿ deserve a more par-
# t* la t d^ci%tlem.;:
Bâtik. : The cloths termed batik are distinguished iato batik M turpéti, MtikMimr
fydfrg, or M tik lâtur bang, as the ground may be either white, : blacks, . Or
red. The white cloth is first steeped in rice wafer, in order, ^prevent.ifelie
colour with which the patterns are. intended to bé drawn, from rurmirigjiaïnd
when they are f e e d and smoothed ^ ten d e re d ), em m e u tm p j M P i
the batik, which gives its name. This is. performed with hot wax in;a.liquid
state, contained in a small and fight vessel, either of copper or. silver»: realised
. chanting,
See Plate.